Compose tips

This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.

<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

Paragraph one.

Paragraph two.

By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility

Text with <br />line break

Text with line break

Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

Character Description

You Type

You Get

Ampersand

&amp;

&

Greater than

&gt;

>

Less than

&lt;

<

Quotation mark

&quot;

"

Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

Paging Help

Break long pages into smaller ones by means of a page break tag (e.g. <!--pagebreak-->):